Securing Phoenix Network Coordinate System

Details

Supervisor:	Yang Chen
Duration:	6 months
Type:	Master Thesis or Student Project
Status:	ongoing

Description

Phoenix [1] is an accurate and decentralized Network Coordinate (NC) system. It can be used to predict the distance (latency) between two Internet hosts without performing directly measurement. We have demonstrated and evaluated Phoenix through Internet traces.

In this project, we are going to consider the security issues in Phoenix NC. There are different kinds of attacks [2] [3] in NC systems, and we are going to design and deploy some security method in Phoenix NC. Finally, we will use typical attacks with real measured Internet data sets to evaluate our design.

There are some existing NC security solutions [4][5] proposed in Vivaldi NC system, which could be our good reference.

Good understanding of C/C++ is necessary for this project.

Reference

• [1]Y. Chen, X. Wang, X. Song, et al. Phoenix: Towards an Accurate, Practical and Decentralized Network Coordinate System. In Proc. of IFIP/TC6 Networking, 2009
• [2] M.A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, T. Turletti, and W. Dabbous. Real Attacks on Virtual Networks: Vivaldi out of tune. In Proc of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop Large Scale Attack Defense, 2006.
• [3] M.A. Kaafar, L. Mathy, T. Turletti, and W. Dabbous. Virtual Networks under Attack: Disrupting Internet Coordinate Systems. In Proc. of ACM CoNEXT, 2006.
• [4] Micah Sherr, Matt Blaze, and Boon Thau Loo. Veracity: Practical Secure Network Coordinates via Vote-based Agreements. In Proc. of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2009.
• [5] D. Saucez, B. Donnet and O. Bonaventure. A Reputation-Based Approach for Securing Vivaldi Embedding System. Proc. 13th EUNICE Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6.6 Workshop on Dependable and Adaptable Networks and Service, 2007.